The principle of limited government is at the heart of the American system.  The Founders believed that tyranny grows in proportion to power, threatening individual liberty.  History is littered with innumerable examples of "absolute Despotism," to use the words of the Declaration of Independence, in which government exercised its power against the people rather than for the people. The pivot of limited government is restraint.  Under the Constitution, government is confined to those powers that protect life, liberty, and property.  James Madison warned, "It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it" (Federalist 48). Despite accusations of fascism from the left, President Trump has attempted to scale back the power of government by eliminating or curtailing many federal regulations and by reducing the size of the...(Read Full Article)